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Work and Exercise: Do You Bring Your Laptop to the Gym?

When you go to the gym, do you try to multitask? As in, do you bring your laptop, your Blackberry, or other PDA, and attempt to work while you work out? Frankly, I'd rather zone out to music, but then I saw a new product that made me wonder if I could get a little work done at the gym ...

**** The SurfShelf, $59.95, is a portable, polycarbonate tray that attaches to almost any exercise machine, allowing you to use your laptop while breaking a sweat (then again, you wouldn't want to sweat directly on to the laptop--not such a good idea).

I do think it sounds like an appealing idea, though I don't know how effective it would be to type while running on the treadmill or bopping up and down on the elliptical. Imagine the typos!

What do you think, would you use something like this?

Photo: SurfShelf

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Sarah JioHealth and fitness writer. Lover of running, Nespresso, Lululemon, and all things French. Mama. New York Times best-selling author. Sometime insomniac.